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Need advice for my Hardware!

Hello all!

I don't know the best way to handle my problem.
At the moment i multibox with 5-man-teams, mostly for herb farming and mountruns!

My current PC can handle a 3-man-team flawless, but 5 is kinda hard. Especially in Boralus!
Once i am logged in for a while in the open world the FPS become stable and its looking pretty good.
I have all my slaves put on renderscale 0.5 and settings on low.
My main window is running at 60FPS, all other at 25FPS

Now to the part where i need your help!
I want it to be much smoother. And quicker loading screens, atm sometimes they are very very long.
I should be able to walk arount Boralus and every other city at a minimum of 40 fps.
Maybe i will give 8 Character boxing a try in the future, so that should be also possible.

1 - Sell the current and buy a new very good PC
2 - Buy a mediocre PC in addition and multibox with them both
3 - Upgrade my current PC for multiboxing (i don't know if its that easy)

My budget would be a maximum of 3000€, but i would be happy if its cheaper!

What do you think would be the best way to get there?
The only thing i can think of to improve is getting an SSD for quicker loading screens.
Maybe there are some magical tricks and tips for making my current Computer work faster, i don't know.

This should be decent for up to 8box, with ok settings. But if you want very nice settings on all 8, you might need a cpu with more cores. If thats the case, maybe try factor in 4 threads per game, for added future security. Any 16 core cpu (32 threads) or better. Consider amd threadripper, if you cant find something intel thats "at the right price".

But i looked thru prizes and intel = yikes. Closest i would get personally, if i had to go intel, would be a Intel Core i9-7940X , 14c/28threads.

If you want new hardware thats fine. But maybe its worth to set background fps to smth like 15 or even less?
In most situations I'm fine with 7 fps in background.
When I played retail I had split load, 4 char per pc. My 4770k @4.2ghz with gtx 970 was fine, no render scale at all, main at "7" graphic settings. GPU load kinda low, CPU as well.

If you ment "x2" of that RAMkit, so you have 32 gb of RAM = thats a good thing, as you want atleast 32gb of RAM for 5 accounts with your settings, for added safetymargins, as you will be close to the 16gb mark.

If you can afford it, go for a 2080 or better.

Try get a powersupply with a little more watts, for more peak headroom, like a 750 watt, espesially if you want to overclock a bit.

It seems that when you use the M.2 slot...
*The motherboard M.2 slot #1 shares bandwidth with a SATA 6.0 Gb/s port. When the M.2 slot is populated, one SATA 6.0 Gb/s port is disabled.
*The motherboard M.2 slot #2 shares bandwidth with a SATA 6.0 Gb/s port. When the M.2 slot is populated, one SATA 6.0 Gb/s port is disabled.

If you plan to use that pc for a long time, and for other things, i suggest getting atleast 1 gb of storage. 500 gb can get a bit short, if you use steam and want to install and play other games aswell.

Besides that, looks good, wish i had that cpu for one of my 5mans /phuu. It should be very nice.

(small disclaimer: when i play on lowest possible settings on a pc with 10 games, it uses around 33 gb RAM, so with 8 accounts, on good settings, it might cutting it close, while also watching youtube/netflix). Just so you are aware of it.

But to boost the settings on your main, its the window you mainly look at afterall, its good practice to tweak around with the slot swap macros.

Spend quality time finetuning, use Mirai's videoguide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiyDPf7DCRs&t=2
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